"Are you sure you haven't heard from him? She said no, but sirens were going off to take cover," Willinea Gambo said.

That was the frantic call Gambo made to her daughter- in-law Ashley in Texas Thursday.

She was trying to get more information, all she knew was that her son 26-year-old-Raymond Saucedo had gone to the very place where a gunman had opened fire.

"I didn't know what to think," Gambo said."The last time Ashley talked to him was 10 a.m. and he told her he was on his way to the processing center to take a new guy there to be processed in and he would call her on his lunch break, but he never called."

Gambo said she felt helpless here in Lansing, watching the news while everything unfolded at Ft. Hood.

Saucedo had just joined the army a year ago and moved his wife and family to Texas in July.

Then, more news from Ashley.

"My son's sergeant called and told her he was coming to pick her up in an armored car because my son had been shot and to get her children ready," Gambo said. "I lost it then because I didn't know why they had her going down there to ID his body, was he shot really bad? They didn't say."

It turned out to be good news for the family -- Saucedo was alive -- but shot in the arm and true to her son's character, Saucedo was ready to get back to work.

"That's the kind of guy he is," Gambo said. "I knew if they didn't hurt him badly, he'd be back looking for them and he was."

While Gambo breathes a sigh of relief, she questions the safety at Ft. Hood and wonders if something like this could happen again.

"I don't understand why, like how could it happen?" She asked. "That scared the heck out of me, that means it's not as safe as I thought it was, you know?"

She hasn't talked to her son yet, but said she can't wait to tell him she loves him.

Saucedo is supposed to be deployed sometime after April of next year.
Gambo said she's not sure where he's headed or if the shooting will delay his deployment.